You asked about Food Service Robots & Machines
56 people built something like it. 56 are gone.
That is 100% of the ones whose fate we could settle, against 23% across the whole register.
| Launched | What it was | Today |
|---|---|---|
| 2021-01-01 | YCMezli Autonomous restaurants that make great, affordable meals. · mezli.com | gone |
| 2015-06-01 | We make robots that make sandwiches. · bistrobot.com | gone |
| 2017-01-01 | YCPearl The future of office coffee. Keurig convenience meets cafe quality. · getpearlcoffee.com | gone |
| 2021-06-01 | Building India's fast food empire · eatnino.com | gone |
| 2022-04-25 | foodiemap.io | gone |
| 2016-01-01 | To make food a renewable resource, for everyone · inevitabletech.com | gone |
| 2014-06-01 | YCZoomer Outsourced, high volume food delivery.
· zoomerdelivery.com | gone |
| 2020-01-01 | YCOrchata Groceries delivered in 20 min in Latinamerica · orchata.com | gone |
| 2018-06-01 | We license brands for delivery and pick-up · purpleplate.co | gone |
| 2022-08-02 | eattsy.com | gone |
| 2022-01-01 | On demand provider of meat to households and food businesses · sendme.ng | gone |
| 2020-06-01 | YCMilkRun Get Food From Farmers, Delivered. · localmilkrun.com | gone |
| 2021-06-01 | YCPerfekto Grocery subscription service against food waste in Latam · perfekto.mx | gone |
| 2021-06-25 | botwars.io | gone |
| 2020-06-01 | YCByte On-demand food delivery from dark kitchens in Pakistan. · web.thebyte.app | gone |
| 2015-01-01 | Upgrading Your Wine Experience · undergroundcellar.com | gone |
| 2021-01-01 | YCUnfurl A virtual food hall that delivers · unfurlcuisine.com | gone |
| 2018-01-01 | YCOvipost Automated insect farming · ovipost.com | gone |
| 2018-06-01 | A brand-new blend of sugars – made from plant fiber! · supplant.com | gone |
| 2020-01-01 | YCDuffl 10-minute delivery service for college students. · duffl.com | gone |
| 2009-01-01 | YCFoodoro foodoro.com | gone |
| 2015-01-01 | YCNomiku Wave our food in front of your Nomiku and have dinner for everyone… · nomiku.com | gone |
| 2011-06-01 | Hyperlinking the real world. · paperlinks.com | gone |
| 2015-06-01 | Worlds smallest and friendliest café franchise. "The Bike-Powered… · wheelyscafe.com | gone |
| 2012-01-01 | YCGrouper We set up drinks between 2 groups of friends: 3 guys and 3 girls. · joingrouper.com | gone |
| 2016-01-01 | Wine by the glass, delivered · getvinebox.com | gone |
| 2016-06-01 | We are building a fleet of autonomous mobile robots that travel on… · robby.io | gone |
| 2024-01-01 | Open-source humanoid robots · kscale.dev | gone |
| 2021-06-01 | AI-Driven Tech & Space Optimization to Scale Restaurants · onestopkitchen.com | gone |
| 2016-06-01 | An AI-powered digital grocer that delivers in under 60 mins. · farmsteadapp.com | gone |
| 2023-10-31 | dieornot.com | gone |
| 2023-11-26 | dreamachines.ai | gone |
| 2020-06-01 | YCRacer 15-minute food delivery · racer.app | gone |
| 2018-06-01 | Amazon for Vegans · mylkguys.com | gone |
| 2022-06-01 | We are doing for seafood what Impossible did for meat · ordinaryseafood.com | gone |
| 2018-06-01 | Instant, fresh ethnic food that actually taste homemade. We're… · thebuttermilkco.com | gone |
| 2021-06-01 | YCMembo Groceries fresher than a farmer’s market, delivered to you (EU) · membo.ee | gone |
| 2019-01-01 | YCSimmer We do reviews for dishes. Our app helps users find the very best… · usesimmer.com | gone |
| 2019-01-01 | YCBensen Online and phone ordering for restaurant takeout and delivery · bensen.ai | gone |
| 2021-01-01 | YCTaste Online marketplace for dinners shipped from great restaurants · gettaste.com | gone |
| 2021-01-01 | Longevity Nutrition Service · eatblueprint.com | gone |
| 2017-01-01 | Crystallized coffee that's better than fresh Starbucks · suddencoffee.com | gone |
| 2023-01-01 | YCChoppy! FAST FLAVORFUL PROTEIN · eatchoppy.com | gone |
| 2017-01-01 | YCOrigin Keurig for healthy smoothies. · eatorigin.com | gone |
| 2018-01-01 | Cannabis infused beverages · drinkdreamin.com | gone |
| 2018-01-01 | We build self-serve bubble tea dispensers! :D · lambdatea.com | gone |
| 2014-06-01 | YCZenamins Personalized health company doing customized vitamin packs on… · zenamins.com | gone |
| 2012-06-01 | YCGoScale Dynamical Scaling Virtual Machines as a Service · goscale.com | gone |
| 2021-06-01 | YCCache Online convenience stores fulfilled by tiny, automated dark stores. · grabcache.com | gone |
| 2020-01-01 | Marketplace enabling social commerce for brands and content creators. · globalbelly.com | gone |
| 2016-06-01 | YCHaywheel Haywheel is an artisan food marketplace for restaurants and specialty… · haywheel.com | gone |
| 2020-01-01 | YCHideout A portfolio of delivery-only restaurant brands · findhideout.com | gone |
| 2018-01-01 | Personalized liquid supplements based your health data · mynutrigene.com | gone |
| 2014-01-01 | YCYumbin App replaces office vending. · yumbin.com | gone |
| 2021-06-01 | Technologies for scaling up cultured/clean meat production · micromeat.com | gone |
| 2018-06-01 | dairy reinvented from plants · sperofoods.co | gone |
How this compares
Y Combinator reports its own outcomes, including acquisitions. The other two are judged by asking the domain, so they are not measured the same way and are never averaged together.
The register re-probes every domain it holds. Some that answered last month stop answering. We send that list — what went quiet, and what it was — once a month. Nothing else.
How this was made. Show HN entries are every post from 2021 to 2023 with at least five points that linked to its own domain; code hosts and free hosting are excluded, because a repository outlives the effort behind it. Product Hunt entries needed 100 votes — a far higher bar, so they are the promoted top slice rather than a like-for-like sample. Both are judged by asking the domain whether it still answers: gone means it no longer resolves, refuses the connection, serves a parking page, or says plainly that it shut down. An HTTP error is not counted as gone — a server answering 404 is one somebody still pays for, and an audit of 25 gone-calls found two such sites alive with only a moved homepage. Y Combinator entries use the status YC publishes itself, which is why only those can say acquired. Squatted domains — a lapsed name now serving somebody else's site — are not detected, so these figures run slightly low.